Re: [Unattended] NTLDR Missing - Nooooo!!!!!

2006-07-28 Thread Tim Bates
Ooops. Sent to Matt only before I think... Doh! Anyway, I've already tried erasing the disk completely (well the first part anyway). Didn't help. I've now also tried choosing the 12G c:, rest d: option in unattended's initial setup part and leaving the format_cmd option out of my

Re: [Unattended] NTLDR Missing - Nooooo!!!!!

2006-07-28 Thread Falko Trojahn (SMI)
Hi, The symptoms I see are that when the script gets to the point where the newly created partition is formatted, I get a screen full of error writing sector messages (or some similar message). When this happened, I tried to I could imagine that - after partitioning - the linux kernel didn't

Re: [Unattended] NTLDR Missing - Nooooo!!!!!

2006-07-28 Thread Nils Olav Fossum
Onsdag 26 juli 2006 10:11, skrev Falko Trojahn: Hi Tim, Unfortunately this version still didn't work. And we already have the format line there. This is the workaround I have used on Thinkpads: Use a Windows XP CD with sp2 integrated, start install, use FAT as filesystem. I used 2 as

Re: [Unattended] NTLDR Missing - Nooooo!!!!!

2006-07-27 Thread Matt_Fries
Sometimes I run into a problem using unattended on a machine that is formatted with FAT32, but I have found a solution that may work for you. The symptoms I see are that when the script gets to the point where the newly created partition is formatted, I get a screen full of error writing sector

Re: [Unattended] NTLDR Missing - Nooooo!!!!!

2006-07-27 Thread Tim Bates
OK, further thinking and I realise the content on the drive is probably my i386 dir, so I still have no idea what's going on. I might take this laptop home and try to find more out. Tim Bates wrote: Falko Trojahn wrote: Well, I've uploaded another 2.6.17 cvs version with parted 1.6.22

Re: [Unattended] NTLDR Missing - Nooooo!!!!!

2006-07-26 Thread Falko Trojahn
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Tim, Unfortunately this version still didn't work. And we already have the format line there. I just did another run, but this time edited the doit.bat before it did it. I took the last line off so setup didnt start, then I continued. I

Re: [Unattended] NTLDR Missing - Nooooo!!!!!

2006-07-25 Thread Tim Bates
Falko Trojahn wrote: Well, I've uploaded another 2.6.17 cvs version with parted 1.6.22 which I have in use here: http://www.smi-softmark.de/unattendedcvs/unattended-cvs-2.6.17.tar.bz2 What I recently had was an Compaq Evo N800c with the famous NTLDR message, and when I reactivated the line

Re: [Unattended] NTLDR Missing - Nooooo!!!!!

2006-07-24 Thread Falko Trojahn
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Tim, Just got some new laptops in at the school I work for. They are HP/Compaq nx6325. I just ran Unattended on them, and it ran OK until it rebooted and I got the dreaded NTLDR Missing message. I'm not entirely sure what the specs are as

[Unattended] NTLDR Missing - Nooooo!!!!!

2006-07-23 Thread Tim Bates
Hi people. Just got some new laptops in at the school I work for. They are HP/Compaq nx6325. I just ran Unattended on them, and it ran OK until it rebooted and I got the dreaded NTLDR Missing message. I'm not entirely sure what the specs are as the docs are fairly limited. I have a feeling